So funny. So appropriate. I’d sig it were it not for the fact that it’s comedic value probably drops precipitously when context is removed.
Weird Al is a national-fucking-treasure.
So funny. So appropriate. I’d sig it were it not for the fact that it’s comedic value probably drops precipitously when context is removed.
Weird Al is a national-fucking-treasure.
Heeeeey. Who are YOU?
Weird Al Yankovic would be far too modest to declare himself a national treasure, so I’m clearly not Weird Al. He’s also far too modest to mention how handsome he is. Did I mention hung like a horse? He’s way too modest to mention that too.
That sounds exactly like something Wierd Al would say to make us think it was someone else talking about him.
Well, here’s the best I can do so far.
Sung to the tune of Work It
I won’t besmirch it,
Only lurk it,
Press my “page down” scroll it and observe it.
[backwards talk]this text is really really coded wrong, this text is really really coded wrong[/backwards talk]
If I were posting,
I’d go by “Boiler”,
I’ll tell you why right now but it’s a spoiler.
[backwards talk]that’s the room Harry Potter gets killed in, that’s the room Harry Potter gets killed in[/backwards talk]
Or maybe that’s just what I want you to think? Which would mean…
Wait, WTF would that mean?
who.
cares.
?
You’d care too if you were as cool as us.
I care, because I think Al is one of the coolest people ever. He seems like such a genuinely good guy, in addition to being hugely talented.
I think that bit about him being hung like a horse was a joke or summat.
Aw, bollocks. That was a bit of a balls-up.
If I may gush just a little, I’d like to opine that Weird Al is the only person on the planet besides Neil Innes that is genuinely funny in addition to and simultaneous with being really rather clever musically. (Assuming, of course, that W.S. Gilbert and Cole Porter are properly dead and not just hiding out somewhere being offensively, irresponsibly, intolerably and unconscionably old.)
He’s delirious, he’s decrepit, he’s decomposing!
Hee!
“I buy a dozen cars when I’m in the mood
I hire somebody to chew my food
I’m an upwardly mobile dude
This is the life!”
That’s a good start, but there are others I would add to the list. Starting with Tom Lehrer (who most people here have probably heard of) and Andrew Ratshin.
Gracious me. Coming from you, that’s got to rank among the five most complimentary things ever said to me on the Dope (Aside to 'luc: I knew there was something special about that kid from his first post).
If you ever change your mind about the .sig, I consider it an honor to grant you permission in advance.
–kaylasdad99, blushing
And, of course, PDQ Bach.
I KNEW IT!!!
No, wait, I said he was a Doper, but I couldn’t have known that from him just lurking. No, he could still have been influenced by all of our…brilliant discourse without actually posting here. So YEAH, BABY! I KNEW IT!!!
I think Scott Adams is a Doper, too. Notice how his “Dilbert” comic changed just after we did a thread about how lame it has gotten? Hunh? Hunh?
(Great album, Al. And curling is too a sport.)